These Burly Mini-SAS and Multilane Enclosures are the perfect solution for the 3ware, Areca, RAIDCore and HighPoint RocketRAID Hardware RAID Controllers and SAS Cards. The excellent cooling that these enclosures provide will ensure a long drive lifespan. The 8 Bay Desktop and 8 Bay Rack Mount Enclosures will both have a pair of 8088 Mini-SAS connectors on the backplane and SATA or SAS Hot Swap Trays on the front. All eight drives will attach with the two cables and receive full bandwidth from the card providing the best possible performance. Since some cards require 8088 or 8470 connector type we ship this enclosure without external cabling. Please order the cables (2) you need from our SAS and Multilane Cable Page. Keep in mind the enclosure end will have to be 8088. Cables are available in .5, 1 and 2 meter lengths. The external cables are all latch-able making this cabling solution much more robust than direct SATA.

  This 8 Bay Burly Enclosure can be configured with SATA or SAS Bays and Trays. The SATA trays will fit any 3.5" SATAI or SATAII drive and the SAS Bays and Trays will fit both SATA and SAS 3.5" drives.

  This enclosure is available pre-populated and tested with SATAII or SAS drives. Please use the pull down menu to configure your Bay and Drive preferences.

NEW Trayless option!

  The solution to many requests for a robust trayless enclosure has now been found. Burly Storage has been looking for that solution for some time and it's now available in the Burly Enclosure line. If you want your enclosure to include the trayless bays simply choose them in the "Bay Type" pull-down menu on any Burly Enclosure. CLICK HERE for a complete description and photos.

Please note, the 500 GB and smaller Seagate 7200.12 generation drives will not work with the trayless style bay. These drives are physically shorter and will not fit snugly in the drive opening. The 750 GB and larger drives have the correct frame size to fit these bays.